The Daughter of Twenty-Faces

[Munsu]

First episode out by Live-eviL:
http://a.scarywater.net/live-evil/%5...5D.mkv.torrent

The story revolves around a female thief named Chico, who is the spiritual successor to the Kaijin Nijū-Mensō (The Fiend with 20 Faces) thief character created by famed suspense and detective novelist Ranpo Edogawa. (Edogawa is a pen name for Tarō Hirai; when written in Japanese family-name-first order, it spells out a Japanese pun for the name of the American suspense and detective author "Edgar Allen Poe").

http://www.chico-tv.com/
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl...anime&aid=5671

Another series by BONES, it looked quite interesting to me.

[Death13a]

Just finished first episode and it was very good, going to keep watching for episode 2.

[Board of Command]

I've been waiting for this one. It stars Hirano Aya

[Kraco]

I had a look at this as well. The description seemed interesting (not the one in Bud's post but the one Live-Evil has on their web site). The graphics in this were strangely old school, I thought. Especially if you look at the cars, for example. They looked like out of some... old Disney cartoon or something. Not that I'm complaing, though.

I suppose we will get a time skip pretty soon because the girl seems so young right now.

[animus]

Man, I was so confused for most of that episode and rather annoyed at her attitude at the beginning.

But so far I guess this was a decent episode.

[Kraco]

- - - - Major ep 1 spoiler below - - - -

Her attitude surely was a surprise in the beginning. I was thinking no way the main character of this series is such a spoiled brat. But then, zomg! She was being bloody poisoned by her parents. No wonder she didn't behave like a good little lady. That was actually pretty masterful. It never visited my mind though I was thinking of other possibilities for why she acted like that.

[animus]

It crossed my mind for a bit with the orange juice and the letter scene. I was like she sounds rather peculiar pouring that juice could she be poisoning it? At first I had thought it was just her step-mother that she didn't like and she was spoiled an craving daddy's attention. That, or she didn't like having a second mother.

[Munsu]

Just watched the first episode...


I enjoyed it quite a bit, wondering what will happen between now and when she becomes the new Twenty-Face thief. Does he retire? Does he die? Does he disapear? Or is he still active and she simply helps him out?

I just hope this series gets a bit of story and plot, instead of following the normal detective-type of series pattern, where they solve one random case after another without really affecting the characters themselves and their development.

[Yukimura]

I'm sorry but I have to say it, Niju-Mensou looks a lot like Roger Smith, and since he's conveniently lacking a real name I can't help but call him Roger. I just hope he doesn't start talking into his watch anytime soon.

Anyway, this looks like it has some promise. The art style a little odd for one who skipped out on much of Trigun, Bebop and the other 90's shows but by the end of the ep I didn't even notice. From the OP it defiantly looks like time will skip and Chiko will acquire plenty of handy burglar skills in that time.

I'm not really sure which way I'd prefer this one go though. I doubt they'll keep it episodic for the full 22 eps, but they could do a bunch mini-arcs that don't ever merge into a central plot but just reveal more and more about the characters as they go on, or the focus could become something like 'reveal the great truth' or 'find the missing Roger Smith who walked out in ep 3 never to be seen again'. Only time will tell, but i'm certainly interested in finding out.

[Ryllharu]

This made me immediately think "Miyazaki-does-Cat's Eye set in the 1960s". It's certainly BONES' character design, but it really had that feel I only get from Miyazaki movies. Fluid animation with a ton of visual nostalgia. Maybe most like Kiki's Delivery Service.

But there's a nice darker edge to this, much like Castle in the Sky.

I didn't even realize I was missing this type of show. Definitely going to pick it up.


As for the poisoning, it all clicked when the aunt was pouring the juice. I thought, "That's poisoned," but I didn't immediately connect that all the other meals were too until Chiko said so. I thought Chiko just hated that her 'parents' were trying to be as Western as possible, by feeding her elaborate rich people meals.

[Everon]

I was watching halfway through it and got fed up with the little girls behavior...and skipped ahead and missed the poisoning revelation. Makes more sense now.

[Munsu]

Episode 1 by Sudo:
http://sudo.ep-get.info/%5Bsudo%5D%2...5D.mkv.torrent

Episode 2 by Live-eviL:
http://a.scarywater.net/live-evil/%5...5D.mkv.torrent

[BioAlien]

She's smart... And learn quickly (Throwing the knife), but is it just me or did twenty face didn't seems to be too happy about that?

[Kraco]

Yeah. He looks like a man who has some regrets. Perhaps a kid throwing a knife reminded him of something.

[Ryllharu]

The way I took it was that he had just saved Chiko from a dangerous place where her life was constantly in danger. Only now, he's taken her to a place where her life is again in danger. I would think he was trying to save her, as he called her "the real treasure," and any regrets he have stem from her going to a potentially equally dangerous world.

She is amazingly smart. I kept thinking she'd notice poison or something in the food, but I can't figure out at all how she knew the gun would be in the drawer. The Chinese woman was with the two of them pretty much all the time.

One thing should have bothered her. Any Chinese person at that time period saying they liked Japanese people. There's no way someone like that could have existed. Maybe that was Chiko's hint, or our writer was being rather creative with history.

[BioAlien]

but I can't figure out at all how she knew the gun would be in the drawer.

She probably just searched the room.

[animus]

She probably just searched the room.

Did you notice the sentence after?


Anyways, she might've overheard a conversation or two since such a big emphasis was put on listening, watching, and deciding for oneself. Maybe she found something when the chinese lady went to buy medicine, or she stepped out of the house to talk to her comrade for a second.

[BioAlien]

Episode 3 out

HD
http://a.scarywater.net/live-evil/%5...5D.mkv.torrent

SD
http://a.scarywater.net/live-evil/%5...5D.avi.torrent


(I'm stuck with SD... Since I can't play properly video with a resolution higher than 1024x768)

[Dark Dragon]

This art style is so nostalgic, bring back so much memories from old favorites like Hunter X Hunter (hunter exam arc), City Hunter and Macross.

Love the cunning look Chiko had at the end of the episode, looks like all of the cunning twenty-faces possess is starting to leak onto her.

I wonder when they will decide to insert the time skip, there is a high possibility of twenty-faces disappearing judging from the scene of him walking away in the OP.

[Munsu]

Alright, I'll be catching up to it now... watching episode 2 as I write this.

Just wondering, anyone seen the sudo version and your opinion on it versus the live-evil one?